Allyship

Accomplices not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex from www.indigenousaction.org
Accomplices are realized through mutual consent and build trust. They don’t just have our backs, they are at our side or in their own spaces confronting and unsettling colonialism. As accomplices, we are compelled to become accountable and responsible to each other. That is the nature of trust.

On Being an Ally part of the White Privilege webinar series from the United Church of Christ
This series webinar series will offer a solid foundation, while also serving as a preview for the United Church of Christ adult education curriculum of the same name due for release in September. The curriculum is part of the United Church of Christ’s ongoing commitment to engaging communities of faith in Sacred Conversations on Race. It promises to provide faith communities with an opportunity to have safe, meaningful, substantive, and bold conversation not just on race – but on a much neglected part of that conversation: white privilege.

Four Ways to be a Better Ally by Verdell A. Wright - from the Believe Out Loud blog
Allyship is a term loaded with concern and mistrust among marginalized people. Most recognize that partnerships are needed to create and sustain social change. However, many allies behave in ways that undermine the progress and humanity of those with whom they claim to stand. Let’s make sure that’s not you. Here are some tips that you can use to help you become a better ally.

White Policing of Black Emotions by Jervette R. Ward - from patheos
James Baldwin once wrote, “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” That rage that Baldwin references is from being cognizant of the privileges that exist for whiteness and the penalties that exist for blackness. Charles happens to be a conscious Black who recognizes the economic, political, social, and cultural oppression that takes place on systemic and micro levels every single day.